About Types and Multi Processes

This topic provides you with information about the definition and the edition of technological types.

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Build Time
Run Time

Build Time

You can create a process based on a given type. The process name is identical to the type name. You can also add another process to this type using Generate Process .

Note: The operation that launches a sub-process lets you select the main process only (the process that has the same name as the type). Thus you cannot launch other processes defined on the subtype.

Process names are based on the type name for easier identification, and can take a suffix provided by the user at creation, except for the fist process on a type.

You can add several processes to your type, what results in the following build time structure:

Run Time

Typing an object still requires activating the process and the tree object consecutively. Any available process can be used for typing. Starting the other processes also requires this procedure, but the object is not typed again.

For each process, the product is seen as the process child, though this is the same product. At a given time, only one process is active, meaning can be interacted with. This is the last process activated via the Monitoring Window. All other process (supervision) views have most interaction buttons deactivated, with a warning message indicating that the process must be activated via the main monitoring tab. Double-click the object shown under a given process in the monitoring tab to activate that process.

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Note: Multiple processes can be in different states at a given time.